Reuters : Hebrew University study shows humans made fire 790,000 years ago
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Title:Paleolithic
Name:Jimmy
City: DallasState: TX USA
And 790,000 years ago there were no Homo sapiens around. These fire makers were Homo erectus, and had significantly less brain volume than modern humans or Neantherthals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus

The consensus scientific opinion is that Homo sapiens evolved from H. erectus in Africa and then spread around the world, outcompeting populations of H. erectus and H. sapiens neanderthalensis as their ranges overlapped.